This paper argues that current academic approaches to environmentalism in developing countries understate the role of class in either dominating political alliances, or in constructing underlying environmental discourse. The paper uses examples of various social movements in Thailand to illustrate the diverse ways in which environmental activism may represent or support different political obje...

This study content analyzed six brands from Unilever and Procter & Gamble, whose advertisements promoted both male-targeted products and female-targeted ones. The study examined three femaleempowering advertisements and three male-targeted, or “opposition” advertisements. It concluded that companies producing these female-empowering advertisements are not truly supporting the feminism activist ...

Hashtag activism happens when large numbers of postings appear on social media under a common hashtagged word, phrase or sentence with a social or political claim. The temporal unfolding of these mutually connected postings in networked spaces gives them a narrative form and agency. Applying Karlyn Campbell’s propositions about rhetorical agency to the case of #BlackLivesMatter, this essay show...

This thesis examines how the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar (2009) has been taken-up in media activism directed towards Indigenous struggles against imperialism. It assumes the importance of locating this phenomenon within the discursive and material regimes that mediate, enable, and constrain it. I therefore offer a contextualised analysis of the film and media relating to its appropriation, whi...

Abstract In Australia, survivor advocacy groups have been closely engaged with the emergence and development of policy redress responses to institutional child abuse. Their activities influence in this respect under-researched. This study focuses on use Twitter, a tool increasingly employed by activist their lobbying repertoires. Using content thematic analysis, tweets 15 non-survivor led group...

The rise of racial hate speech on social media has raised critical questions for scholars to explore. It is necessary understand how outside observers passively evaluate (a) online posts and (b) whether those evaluations are related observers’ subsequent behavior. This study explored acts majority-on-minority minority-on-minority anti-Asian tweets Twitter. In an experiment ( n = 196) informed b...